Summerville held on for a 4-3 victory at home to improve to 9-2 with a 4-0 mark in Region 8-AAAA. Ashley Ridge fell to 10-2, 3-1.

Green Wave sophomore Sawyer Bridges only allowed three hits and no runs in five-plus innings on the hill to improve his pitching record to 4-0. He struck out four batters, but also walked four and hit two.

Ashley Ridge starter Carson Walls also pitched five-plus innings in taking the loss. Walls (5-1) only walked three and struck out five, but surrendered nine hits.

Summervilleís Johnston McCurry was 3 for 4 at the plate with two RBIs and a run scored. The shortstop also put an end to two Swamp Fox turns at bat with a pair of diving catches with runners on base.

Bridges was 2 for 3 at the plate with an RBI and TJ Hopkins was 2 for 4 with a double and a run scored.

Aaron Miller led the Swamp Foxes, going 3 for 4 with a run scored. Jason Miller reached base three times and Bradley McLaughlin had a homerun.

Jack Bahen and Hopkins singled in the bottom of the third inning and McCurry drove them in with a base hit for a 2-0 Summerville lead.

McCurry opened the bottom of the fifth with a single and stole second. Zach Mosay hit a grounder that was too hot for the Ashley Ridge shortstop and before the ball was fielded McCurry dashed home for a three-run Green Wave lead. Mosay moved around on a double by Charlie Fessler and then scored on a hit by Bridges for a 4-0 score.

But the Swamp Foxes didnít give up.

McLaughlin entered the game in the top of the seventh and sent a solo homer over the left-field fence. After a strikeout, Josh Litchfield and Aaron Miller singled and Rusty Grayson was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Jason Miller received a base on balls that pushed Litchfield home and Aaron Miller scored on a sacrifice fly by Hunter Grover.

The Swamp Foxes then came within inches of tying the game, but Summerville reliever Billy Peatross caught a hard line drive Nick Rowell hit straight back to the pitcherís mound for the final out of the game.

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